[BusyBox] Busybox 1.0.0-pre10 and sendmail

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir at technion.ac.il
Mon May 10 22:23:25 UTC 2004


On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 11:47:05PM +0200, Frank Lenaerts wrote:
> On Mon, May 10, 2004 at 09:18:07PM +0300, Tzafrir Cohen wrote:
> > What exactly do you need?
> > * send mail by smtp?
> 
> Is there something that can _only_ do this? I'm just looking for a way
> to avoid having a full blown postfix (which I use on normal systems)
> on a minimalistic system. 
> 
> I'm just thinking about the following but there might be better
> options:
> 
> - create a script which talks smtp (using nc or telnet)
> - only take the necessary postfix parts (postfix is very modular)
> (- use ssmtp with an SMTP relay)

actually ssmtp is just what you're looking for.

I see some others in frehsmeat. e.g: msmtp

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